I'm helping an older lady from church get set up with a laptop and software so she can finish a book nearly ready for publication and to start on her next. After some looking about, we settled on an Acer Extensa 5220 with a Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P drive (the price + cashback left plenty in her budget for printer etc). I installed FC6 to experiment with dual booting for the first time. All went well. I bought DVD media for Fedora 7 (yes I'm still on dialup) to take advantage of the new featuresbut could not install. After 4 days of reading posts here and on Bugzilla (this drive is one mentioned there), I think I now know the problems, but can't find a solution other than wait for Fedora 8 and hope it is fixed. I downloaded a boot.iso from ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/images/boot.iso but still no go. The development boot.iso worked but didn't like the DVD media. What is the best course of action? Stay with FC6 and wait for Fedora 8? Set up a local repo from the Fedora 7 DVD on another box and yum upgrade ? Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards Simon Slater
